NextDC buys up Melbourne and Brisbane data centre land

The latest entrant in the data centre gold rush has purchased properties in Melbourne and Brisbane to build concrete facilities.

In a statement former Pipe Networks chief and now NextDC founder and direct, Bevan Slattery said the 14,000 sqm Port Melbourne property was large enough for future expansion and was close to power and telecommunications services.

“We have also acquired a solid concrete building in Brisbane CBD with net lettable area of approx 2300 sqm,” Slattery said. “This property will enable NextDC to address immediate demand for data centre space in Brisbane.”

Slattery has also put $15 million in equity into the company to support it’s growth plans. The Port Melbourne facility is expected to be operational in 12 months time while the Brisbane data centre will be online by the end of the year.

Analyst firm IDC has described Australia as having some of the oldest data centres in the Asia Pacific region. It says this "is significant in that old data centres are more expensive to maintain, less reliable and often unable to cope with the demands placed on them by modern servers and storage".

The list has been culled from 17 to five, knocking-out including high-profile organisations including CSC, Fujitsu Australia and Oracle Australia.

Providers are bidding to assist with the "design, construction, commissioning, financing and provision" for the Data Centre Reform Project which will reduce the government’s 130 data centres into two, based in Sydney and Illawarra.

Copyright 2018 IDG Communications. ABN 14 001 592 650. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of IDG Communications is prohibited.